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Benign childhood focal seizures and related epileptic syndromes

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A Clinical Guide to Epileptic Syndromes and their Treatment

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Benign childhood focal seizures and related epileptic syndromes are the most common and probably the most fascinating and rewarding topic in paediatric epileptology.1 They affect 25% of children with non-febrile seizures and form a significant part of the everyday practice of paediatricians, neurologists and clinical neurophysiologists who care for children with seizures. Rolandic seizures are widely recognised. Panayiotopoulos syndrome (PS), a previously unrecognised common disorder with dramatic clinical and EEG manifestations, has now been formally recognised by the ILAE.2,3 It has further been highlighted by editorials4,5 and reviews in medical journals,6,7 examined in an expert consensus, 8 featured as the main theme of a recent issue of Epilepsia,7,9–12 and is becoming more readily diagnosed by physicians. Less common phenotypes, such as the idiopathic childhood occipital epilepsy of Gastaut (ICOE-G) and idiopathic photosensitive occipital lobe epilepsy, have also been recognised and defined.

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